Priceless the joke that tells the truth. American-Iranian actress creatively rails against Hollywood’s racism in her quirky, innovative short film below,
Brain of Terror.

Kathreen Khavari is an actress fed up with what she continually experiences as Hollywood’s intense manifestation of USA’s wider racism. Thus she created this six minute short about a woman dreams about her serious identity crisis and self doubt, seeing herself through the eyes of the American public as a “proud terrorist” after watching episodes of “Homeland.”

“This film came to fruition because I was sick of getting sent out for mostly terrorist roles, which my agent at the time believed was all I could play,” Khavari told the web magazine Colorlines in an e-mail.

Other artists have played with these stereotypes, because they are generally global – some to great effect. Look at Thomas Dworzak a photographer who in 2007 released the…